The second leader of Baha’ism, Abdul Baha has announced every kind of fighting against the tyrant enemies as forbidden: “Everybody even the enemies must be treated with extreme kindness and affection and you must be loyal against their tyranny…[1]”
To confront the enemies, he has also said: “… If a tyrant tyrannizes you and attacks like a wolf having sharp claws, the divine disciples must be surrendered like sheep and mustn’t resist but they must counteract sword and razor with nectar and milk. They must suffer from injuries and kiss the killer’s hands and sacrifice in the divine path. You must ask forgiveness for the killer and the tyrant.[2]” Abdul Baha has also called the defenders of the homeland as the fierce and rapacious dogs’.[3]”
However, it is interesting to be known that these statements of Abdul Baha liked by the Colonialism are too weak and baseless that he himself has considered the output of such behavior as tyrannizing the sinless people: As we read: “… Of course, Sinless people must be granted more… because having mercy on these people is tyrannizing other human beings or animals. For instance, if you are kind with a wolf, this will be tyrannizing the sheep: It will kill a herds of sheep. A caustic dog will extinguish one thousand animals and human beings if it has opportunity. So, being kind with a rapacious animal will be tyranny against the oppressed one.[4]”
[1] Abbas Effendi, some excerpts from Abdul Baha’s Makatib, Germany: The assembly of publishing the faith works in Persian and Arabic languages, provided by the universal center of Baha’ism, Vol. 1, 2000 A.D. Vol. 1, p. 19.
[2]Abbas Effendi, Makatib, Egypt: Farajullah Zaki Al-Kurdi, 1921 A.D. Vol. 3, p. 160.
[3] Refer to: Abbas Effendi, Makatib, the electronic copy, Vol. 1, p. 410.
[4] Abbas Effendi, Makatib, Egypt: Farajullah Zaki Al-Kurdi, 1921 A.D., Vol. 3, p. 212.